Guild Wars 2

Yeah but I don’t have that much time during the week since I’m working and I can only buy 1 Tri Key per day.

CrazyAce.3842:

Jeremlloyd.6837:

Yeah for condition damage u should use a necro or an engineer

Necro sucks and engineer I prefer turrets or elixirs. I don’t particularly like playing either one of those classes as a condition class because their survivability is much lower.

You’d be surprised at how much condition damage I put out on my mesmer, with clones and phantasms all stacking conditions along with me.

Necro sucks? Hmm not at all and its survivability is fine (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCaEGzBkEuo)

I’m waiting to get my ascended armor on mesmer to record another time (this may take some days since I’ve no dragonites and I hate World Bosses and WvW -.-)

Yeah for condition damage u should use a necro or an engineer

Condition damage is just bad for PvE, you should always go full damage. And for all PvE content a full berserker team can do everything.

For mesmer, I still think 10/30/0/20/10 is better, but you can also go with 10/20/0/25/15 or 0/30/0/25/15 since phantasmal haste is bugged with most of our phanstasm (except duelist / warlock: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/Phantasmal-Haste-doesn-t-affect-Warden/)

Someone made some test in HotM with different build also (https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/Build-after-patch/first#post3356886)

For guardian it didn’t change, just look at obal’s guide

Well you lose 100 power with that build. Also during most fight I can have at least 2 phantasm up so the IC is quite useless for me

Cyninja.2954:

I think every mesmer will agree, pure damage is S/x domain. There is no arguing around that. Now I get the GS hate most people have, but there are a couple of reasons NOT to go S/x+S/x.

a. shared cooldown on first 3 skills for both mh swords
b. pure melee range. this is mostly a l2p issue but there are those situation where you REALLY want to stay at range or going melee all the time is suicide

This poses following problem. Our only other mh weapon is the scepter. Sort of a no-go for pve damage wise. If we now take into account our 2-hand options we are left with GS and staff. GS wins on damage here especially with well placed izerkers.

So to sum up:

- If you want to minimize inventory swaping go gs+s/x (and once they fix pwarden s/f ideally with traited focus)
- be sure to keep following weapons on hand:
MINIMUM: Sword, Focus, GS, Pistol
IDEAL: 2xSword, Focus, GS, Pistol, Staff, Torch
ALL OUT: 3xSword, Focus, GS, Pistol, Staff, Scepter, Torch

I never said I hate the GS, I use it from time to time depending of the situation, but it’s really rare

LordByron.8369:

Jeremlloyd.6837:

I know the iZerker is AoE I’m normally using it at the start of the fight and quickly equip the focus or OH sword back before the iZerker attack. And usually, we just LoS the dredges so I don’t even need it

the only way to LoS dredge is behind other dredges >.>
at certain levels…..

Btw izerk + iwarden is what you want when you need aoes…

If you speak about fractal 43/44, yeah you have to rely a lot on phantasm and iZerker / iWarden is the best option, but since I did them already, I don’t even bother using GS on the dredge fractal anymore.

Yeah but the Sword AA chain remove boons as well, and you got Null Field for boon removal

Well you can buy Orrian Boxes with Karma as well, but it’s not as profitable as before

LordByron.8369:

Jeremlloyd.6837:

shameless.4728:

y i do play Pve most and i use gs and s/s but i was wondering for higher fractal level should i change something in my gear?and which of those should i pick :S

You should consider getting a focus (for the extra projectile reflection when traited), and play mostly S/F – S/S. Try to not use the GS or only when all your group is ranging (i.e. Legendary Imbued Shaman, except for the shield/grub phase, Legendary Archdiviner, Old Tom if you don’t know how to melee it). But you should consider that melee gives the best DPS in the game.

remember GS is AoE >.>

Just in case you happens by “few” dredges…

I know the iZerker is AoE I’m normally using it at the start of the fight and quickly equip the focus or OH sword back before the iZerker attack. And usually, we just LoS the dredges so I don’t even need it

Xyonon.3987:

^Almost what Jeremlloyd said.

Mainly go Sword/Focus and Sword/Sword. If no reflection is required switch the focus with the pistol for highest damage. Try not to run GS unless there are trashmobs. If you require range badly, better take a scepter (mossman for example for the additional block) or a staff (imbued shaman for dodging his projectile and lure it to your 2 skill). Those are just examples. Just keep all weapons in your inventory.

I don’t like the staff at all (except for trolling ppl in Arah), and for Imbued shaman, at max range you just need side stepping (move left / right quickly) and you’ll avoid arrows without even dodging

shameless.4728:

y i do play Pve most and i use gs and s/s but i was wondering for higher fractal level should i change something in my gear?and which of those should i pick :S

You should consider getting a focus (for the extra projectile reflection when traited), and play mostly S/F – S/S. Try to not use the GS or only when all your group is ranging (i.e. Legendary Imbued Shaman, except for the shield/grub phase, Legendary Archdiviner, Old Tom if you don’t know how to melee it). But you should consider that melee gives the best DPS in the game.

NoTrigger.8396:

Phoenix.2518:

Casmurro.9046:

robertul.3679:

Actually I just managed to solo Alphard just to prove that even after the buffs he’s still pretty easy. It was an afk fight to be honest. I have no idea why are you complaining. Pics attached.

That quest thats is showing in your pic “Navigate the labyrinth of arah” is up, which means you didnt get to Lupicus, so you cheated!

If you look at his combat log… he was using a trident to kill Alphard.. so he somehow pulled her far enough to probably just AFK attack it to death.

he killed alphard while being under water then.
basically his screenshot is screaming “arenanet please give me a permaban”

Let’s all report that guy

http://gw2dragons.com/temple/of/balthazar to know on which server the temple is open (keep 1 guest for that).

I don’t think it’s a question related to dungeons, but I mostly use it for Obsidian Shard and to buy ascended recipes.

Oh didn’t notice they changed the formula. I’m pretty sure it was 2:1 before the patch :/

2 silk = 1 refined one so that’s 4k . Anyway that’s not the point of the topic ^^

Back on topic, for the next video, I’ll probably wait till I get an ascended berserker armor set (probably this week-end)

Xyonon.3987:

Well it’s a pain in the kitten to craft a heavy ascended armor – however I already own the full materials for my ascended armor (except daylies and dragonit ore ofc >_>)

It was a wise desicion to keep 2000 silk xD

Only 2000? I have like like 20+ stacks of silk and leather XD

I need to try it again when I’ll have time since I didn’t use the daze mantra (for more vuln) and I don’t really need feedback since I can interrupt it when it’s launching the grubs (so i’ll take a 4th mantra for a 4% more dmg boost)

Also I’ll do another try with the boost I get with a group setup (banners, 25 stack of might, fury, 25 stack of vuln on target, spotter, frost spirit)

If Spiky Fruit doesn’t work in dungeons now, I guess the CoE P1 record is not valid anymore, or am I wrong? (looking at you Cookie)

I’ll still use the “meta” build for organised group 10/30/0/20/10, but I do change it depending on the dungeon and if I need extra reflection or not (30/30/0/0/10 or 20/30/0/0/20)

And if you don’t like playing with mantras and you want a phantasm + reflection build, you should go for 10/20/0/25/15 like LordByron said

Yeah I know this is not a perfect kill… I may try it out again tonight

Jasher.6580:

You think that the damage in this video is better than the other zerker specs for other classes?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5e3qcCj6ic

Check this video: http://youtu.be/BbGu6p7Zmpc
It’s more accurate than the one Brazil made since I made it yesterday. (it’s not with a full phantasm build)

And with the same setup, it could be done faster since the warden kinda bugged for both kills

If you look at the video description, you’ll see that I didn’t use Hound of Balthazar because I only wanted to use mesmer skills and not racial skills But I know it’ll be a burst increase since I was able to do a 20s kill without TW with the 30/30/0/0/10 build

Also in a group setup, Hounds of Balthazar isn’t a viable option.

EDIT: It seems my warden was bugged after the first spin, so under 15s can be done easily i’d say

Thanks ^^ Yeah like I said in the description I made a few mistakes, I really didn’t try to have a perfect kill time. The main hand sword is Bolt and the off hand one is the Fiery Dragon Sword from the HoM

Yeah I didn’t try pistol, but the point of the warden was to have a phantasm close to the giant for a quick shatter But I’ll try with a pistol tonight I guess ^^

There you go: http://youtu.be/BbGu6p7Zmpc

With 30/30/0/0/10 I made a 16s kill i’ll try to upload it tmr

I’ll try it tonight with both 30/30/0/0/10 and the “meta” build for organised group 10/30/0/20/10

Shame on those lazy people (but at least we can make some good money with them)

Nah, according to the stat we see on the ascended armor using the chat codes, there’s no infusion slots on the armor pieces.

Then the last one must be me most likely

4 votes needed for a kick seems a bit too much, 3 would be enough or only allow the group leader or the one who started the dungeon to ask for a kick.

Yeah I checked it and it’s ~10min

Kain Francois.4328:

obal.3218:

Staff guards are in for a treat tomorrow. No spoilers plz

…It will prove you wrong

Yo. What’s up?

Seems like you missed the thread he made about it: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Lupi-Staff-Guardian-Solo/first#post3300991

For ranger, I’d say it’s more like 30/25/0/15/0, gaining opening strike (always crit + 10 stack of vuln) each time you kill a foe is priceless for trash mobs fight.

spoj.9672:

I planned to do my achieves for this eventually. Still havent and I cant really see myself convincing anyone to tag along. I have 16 aether keys sitting in the bank.

Im on EU so theres no chance of tagging along with either of you. :<

I wouldn’t mind doing it again, if you need help and I think a guildie need those achievements as well

Pyroatheist.9031:

I’m honestly still unconvinced about Scholar runes, since phantasms do not get that damage bonus.

I got both set i’ll try to test it out tonight if I have time.

Yeah most people posting here can do the path solo / duo legit

Xyonon.3987:

At least 10/20/0/20/0 and the other 20 points are free for you.
Run full Zerker equip and for PvE in dungeons ruby orbs as “runes” and for sigils stacking or +5% damage / 2 weapons with +10% damage and of course the sigil of battle for swappers.

If you group can stack might properly, Sigil of battle is not worth it. Also, ruby orbs is the cheap option, if you can afford it, go for Rune of the Scholar.

Here is the current “meta” build for PvE: http://tinyurl.com/mesmer-dps-build
And for the sigil, you’d need one set with stacking sigil (that means 2 stacks per kill) if there’s plenty of trash mobs to stack Perception (to maximize your reflection damage) , or Sigil of Accuracy on MH sword and for your off hand weapon you’d need Sigil of the Night for night dungeons or Sigil of Force.

Haha I knew it was that video, nice job obal!

I already know what’s coming

Well 1.4g per 1h+ seems fair to me since you can get more than 5g an hour with only champ farming (Source)

If they leave the end reward as it is, they should just allow us to get the reward for each fractal we do (remove the daily thing).

All depends of your build, and well mesmer are not supposed to do the gate controller XD. That said, with a build like 10/30/0/20/10 (so with empowering mantras + compounding power), I just charge 4 mantras before going in, then swordman phantasm / warden / sword #3 to close the gap, then sword #2, auto attack and shatter when u’re sure the shatter will destroy the controller.

All depends of your build, and well mesmer are not supposed to do the gate controller XD. That said, with a build like 10/30/0/20/10 (so with empowering mantras + compounding power), I just charge 4 mantras before going in, then swordman phantasm / warden / sword #3 to close the gap, then sword #2, auto attack and shatter when u’re sure the shatter will destroy the controller.

Darthaemos.6370:

I predict that just 4 of you will fail CoF path 1.

CoF p1 can be done with 4 man… We did it more than once!